Jason Curtis

Shiiitttttt

Jesus Christ.

Happy Cinco de Mayo Motherfuckers!!!!

Really?

The field split on another issue, with Brownback, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee and Colorado Rep. Tom Tancredo raising their hands when moderator Chris Matthews asked who did not believe in evolution.

really?

McCain shot back, saying bin Laden's responsible for the deaths of thousands of innocent Americans. "We will do whatever is necessary. We will track him down. We will catch him. We will bring him to justice and I'll follow him to the gates of hell," he said.

really?

REALLY

Goodbye, Hello

I have one exam left before this hellish semester mercifully ends. Hopefully, I will get at least a D in everything. I have all but abandoned any effort to working on my GPA. Seems that my pitch to potential employers will be based on my work experience rather than my scholastic accolades. That's cool.

What a crazy year it has been! Lots of things have been checked off my list, and I am looking forward to a return to my pinnacle of accompllishments circa 2001. It's been a fun "break" so to speak, and I think there is a lot of value in what I have been doing the past two years. Now, its about so much more than gaining back something I felt I had lost when I was 20.

Upcoming Changes
- Finding a job in the PR/Marketing field in NYC
- Moving away from here and to NYC
- Moving to a place where all the small* successes I've had here can be magnified and rewarded as they should be
- I am cutting out Typepad and the associated cost in favor of streamlining my online self. This means more involvement with Google. This means a return to blogger, which is free and now has a lot of the features they were missing when I chose to leave. No need to update your links, I will be moving my domain to the new site within the next 6 days (for that is when Typepad will be shutting down this site.)
- I have been a long-time dissident of MySpace and Facebook. But, if I am going to try and make money using these forums for career purposes, then I feel I need to get good at them. I will still avoid any sort of "pimping" service though. If you get a request from me, then go ahead and add me as a friend.
- It appears that I will not be leaving Carrboro until I leave the state (or at least with a minimal swing stay in Angier or North Raleigh on my way out. That means commuting five days a week, which will be expensive if gas gets any pricier.

You Know What's Hard?

Holding yourself up to other people's standards. I think my standards are pretty solid, meaning, I am pretty comfortable with the thoughts that enter and exit my head. In fact, I will usually stand by them even when they are blatantly false. That is how much I trust myself overall.

So, when a cop says something you did is "very illegal", when things get deleted or professors say things like, "you are too far long in your career to be this sloppy", I say things like, "Thank you officer" "That's cool" and "I would despise myself if THIS were my career."

You know what? Everyone's right.

Speaking of 'D's", go buy both or one of either Louis C.K.'s DVD, Shameless and Ghosts of Abu Ghraib, both coming to DVD June 26. 2007.

Out of Hand

THIS article caught my eye this morning, and as I cleared the sleepy stuff from my eyes, I laughed a little bit. Apparently, with all the Imus media swarm, Ruben Navarette (isn't that last name translated to 'Rockefeller'?) has written a commentary piece covering the use of the "w-word" when referring to Mexicans.

Having a hard time recalling what the fuck word he's talking about? Me too. Here's a quote:

"New York Times columnist Frank Rich wasn't all that careful. In arguing that offensive speech shouldn't be censored, Rich wrote that we should "let Bill O'Reilly talk about 'wetbacks.' ..."

Oh, hello. That is exactly how Rich wrote it -- wetbacks. So what that he was quoting someone else. That's no excuse. If that someone else had used the long version of the n-word, you had better believe that Rich would never have printed it in his column."

Really, Mr. Navarette? Really? You actually wrote a paragraph containing the word 'wetback' and an attack on someone's use of the word, saying in yourself, in the next sentence, "So what that he was quoting somone else. That's no excuse."

Congratulations Mr. Navarette, you have set the new speed record for hypocrisy. My thoughts:

1. 'Wetback' is a stupid slur. You mention that its origin is that Mexicans all cross a river to get here, but I always heard that it was because your people worked in the sun, as farmers, and sweat a lot. Either way, who the fuck cares? It's a dumb premise.
2. The reason so many people are using it is because the word itself carries very little power. The more you raise a stink, the more power you are giving a slur that you, assumingly, wish to never hear again. That's dumb on your part.
3. To compare the "w-word" to the "n-word" is more evident of jealousy in your argument than of any sort of empathy or brotherhood with another culture that shares your plight: minoritism.
4. I was once called a "white devil" and a "honkey" in front of a Best Buy. I laughed. This is not to say that you should always laugh, but think about it as an option the next time.
5. Bill O'Reilly and Rosie O'Donnell are the aim of your argument? Really? These two? Um, okay. Again, I think you are wasting your time there. There are bigger fights to fight, as they say.

Adios.

Nerdery

Part of the OC meme that Nick started, my entry entitled "Raging Sister".

On Virginia

I came into class today and my classmates were talking about where they were after 9/11. Obviously, the catalyst of this conversation was the events that occured in Blacksburg yesterday. It's a sad time on college campuses across the country, because we just do not know what happened. And that is okay. The details of the events that took place will unfold when the investigation is complete.

It is not yet time to draw conclusions. It is not a time for assigning blame. It is a time for healing, especially in Blacksburg.

Hello Ladies!

My name is Robert Gunn, but you can call me Bobby. A little bit about me: I like hunting, fishing, and watching shows about hunting and fishing. I used to work down at the steel mill until I died in a smelting accident. Ever since then, I've been raised as a member of the living dead. If I was a food, I'd be a Twinkie and my celebrity dinner would be with Jesus, Bob Seger, and Ted Nugent.

I'm looking for a sweet Southern gal that knows when and when not to talk. If that is you, then it is okay for you to call me ... daddy. Ha. But really, I'd love to grab some ginger snaps and go walking down to the crick.

Dial extension 45094 if you want ta.

Hey YouTube! WTF?!?

Alright YouTube, you are now owned by Google. What does that mean? Well, besides never having to tell your son Timmy that he is going to go hungry for Christmas, you also have the resources to improve your fucking web site.

Specifically, the view counters. For just one clip a person can find three or four different counts of how many people have viewed their videos. Why is this? Um, sloppy coding and an infrastructure in which programmers do not have access to the resources that they need. Its as simple as updating all of the various databases so that they are synced with the most current data. Easy.

I'm not a programmer, so maybe its hard, especially considering the traffic to the site, but I find it hard to believe that within a three day period, it is not possible to correctly communicate the number of views a clip has.

YouTube, if you want all us new media dorks to build methods for utilizing your technology for PR and marketing purposes, then you will find a way to more efficiently provide us with statistics on the videos we share. The lifeblood of the site is the user generated content, and you have a responsibility (especially if you are going to be advertising to us based on that content) to develop a trusted and accurate statistical model.

If you don't, your site will remain "crappy".

In your face.

Insomniac

I just woke up from almost falling asleep just to type this message. I won't know until tomorrow whether it was worth it, but I had a vibrant series of thoughts that got me going. First, Beibeleh's play was tonight, and I hope it was everything she wanted it to be. It was nice being there to see her family's first viewing. From an outside perspective, I was really happy to see the finished product and even referring to it as 'finished' is as jarring for me as it is a relief for Kate. That led me to the thinking of the idea of freezing time, more specifically how funny it would be to break out "freeze" in the middle of a scene during the 4/20 show. In that scene that I was (sort of) dreaming about, one of my characters was a doctor at a V.A. hospital in China, called V.A. China. After he finished the scene about slowing down time, he wrote a book entitled "The V.A. China Monologues." Who played the doctor? You guessed it, Andrew Koenig.

Did you know that Chekov was Boner's dad and that he is a performer at IOWest and Second City? It's true.

Life can be hilarious sometimes.